The John of God, eye-ball slicing and nose-pliers are carnival tricks.
They showed an apparent video, where John of God cut a hole in a guy, and was sticking his bare fingers in there, and none of his stuff is sterilized. Then people go home, and have to deal with the infections, which don't make it on Oprah.
That is probably mixed with the sleight of hand, like they did with psychic surgery scam.
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Its shocking that anyone from a first world country, with an education, would let some random guy in Brazil cut them open? Its truly scary.